Fishing Industry Pushes Back as First Commercial-Grade Offshore Wind Farm Moves Forward

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The commercial fishing industry pushed back as the Vineyard Wind I project, the first commercial-grade offshore wind farm in the U.S., moves forward.

The project is part of President Joe Biden's goal of having 30 gigawatts of offshore wind energy by 2030, as well as Massachusetts's goal of 5.6 gigawatts by 2030, said U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland in Barnstable, a town on Cape Cod.

Haaland attended a groundbreaking for the project with Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker on Thursday. Two transmission cables with be laid to connect Vineyard Wind 1 to the mainland in the project's first steps of construction, The Associated Press reported.

A legal challenge was filed in September to the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management's approval of Vineyard Wind 1 with the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston by the Responsible Offshore Development Alliance, a coalition of commercial fishing groups.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/fishing-industry-pushes-back-as-first-commercial-grade-offshore-wind-farm-moves-forward/ar-AAQT1EE

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1. Putting more trash in the ocean won't save the world.

All these wind farms do is increase our long term dependence on natural gas.

Natural gas, because most people seem to think it's somehow benign, is the currently the greatest threat to earth's natural environment as we know it.

Hybrid natural gas / wind power systems will only prolong the miseries caused by fossil fuel use.

"Better than coal" is such a low bar it's meaningless. We need to abandon fossil fuels entirely, even those fuels that support our renewable energy fantasies.

An economy powered entirely by renewable energy would look nothing like the economy many affluent people now enjoy. It wouldn't even be able to support the current world population, which is approaching 8 billion.

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2. Offshore Wind Farms on the East Coast really would help reduce fossil fuel use

Unlike the wind farms in wind alley, these are close to the population centers of the US. Regardless that the wind doesn't always blow (offshore is more consistent than land based) they would reduced the need to burn fossil fuels for decades.